October 31, 2010

Saturday In Westfield

Erin and I took a weekend off together to go see her horse in Westfield, WI aka Middle of Nowhere. Good clean air, tons of gut wrenchingly cute animals, big plates of fried, and beer.
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$40 dollar a night cinder block motel with a lodge down the street. Freakin' heaven.

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Get out of town.

October 30, 2010

October 29, 2010

More Track or Treat Prizes

Wheels
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and our buddy Prolly sent over some Mishka stuff
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good prizes, shitty photos (sorry)

see you soon.

Track or Treat is Tonight

Don't forget that tonight is Track or Treat 4.

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Thanks again to Greg Bemis for hooking up such an awesome flyer

Show up under the Hennepin Bridge on Nicollet Island at 10pm. Bring a few beers. There will be a trackstand comp, and then the main race. After the race we're going to Jimmy's in NE.

I have a bunch of prizes so your chances of winning something is very very good.

I don't have the access to the pics of the wheels or the prizes from Mishka at the moment, due to an error on my part, but our homies at Affinity sent over a bunch of their classic Don't Steal Bikes Bro t's.
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get stoked.

Old School Minneapolis Messenger Photos

Retired messenger and Hub co-owner Sean Nelson gave me permission to repost some photos that he had posted on Facebook. There are shots of the first Stupor Bowl, the famous Human Powered Rollercoaster, and some people whom you might recognize.

They are awesome and I'm stoked to bring these to your attention

Credit for the photos goes to Sideshow

Stupor Bowl I
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Human Powered Rollercoaster - Toronto
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Bobcat and Marcus
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Martin crica '97
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After years off of alleycats after his sons were born Martin has come back hard and finished second at Stupor Bowl and won the 2010 All City Championships. Martin's my dude.


Pete
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Bobcat & Marko
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In Winnipeg
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Sean Worlds '05
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If any of you out there have any old alleycat, messenger, singlespeed, etc pics that you'd like to share with the world. Please send them my way.

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real good street trials

October 28, 2010

New MPLS Bike Love Swag

The folks who took over our beloved local forum MPLSBIKELOVE.COM are unveiling some new gear at Art Attack on Nov 7th.

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Dose of Awesome

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Ever notice how everyone loves Zappa but no one ever actually plays any of his records. I don't mean to get you all up in arms about this as I know you love Zappa, but for reals who actually listens to his albums on a regular basis.

Don't get mad at me, I love Hot Rats.



You know what? I'm sorry I even brought it up. Just look at the photo.

Mark Zeh Time Trial Bike

While I was out running flyers tonight I came across this Mark Zeh 24" front wheel time trial machine from the 90's at One on One.
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For those not familiar, Mark Zeh was a local Minneapolis frame builder who was active from 1983-1999. Check out his website and what he's doing now, it's wild. He's got tons of patents and has a ludicrously impressive design and engineering resume.

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here is a previous Zeh that I posted last year

Cranksgiving 2010 Minneapolis

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Cool Story Bro

cool-story-broWhenever I get home from being out in the evening the first thing I do is change into my house clothes. These "house clothes" consist of a pair of fleece pants and a house t-shirt. Let me explain. These are shirts that I don't wear out of the house (mostly). Many of them are threadbare and coming apart at the seams.

Tonight I was wearing my 1991 Pop Warner football shirt w/ my last name on the back that B.Ridget has been nagging me to get rid of. She is completely not stoked on it/them and thinks I'm a goddamn loony for hanging onto/loving such rags. I tell her, "See this seam on the upper right shoulder? At Mike Hastreiter's birthday in 6th grade (which I rode to on my brand new Trek 830 mountainbike. The bike I did my first races on and led to this life of bikes) we were playing tackle football and Drew Foss ripped it trying to tackle me. Then my mom fixed it but forgot to turn the shirt inside out so she made the seam mohawk up on the outside."

Look, I love t-shirts; and to own one from newness to completely threadbare, to have it lose that much material from use, to fully and completely own something through it's entire usable life....etc. etc. Well, she doesn't get it.
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She says that if I'm still doing this in 20 years she's going to throw them all out of the house some day when I'm out.

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October 27, 2010

Track or Treat Prizes

The wheels are still in progress, but the prizes from Banjo Brothers and Chrome showed up today

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Thanks a ton you guys.

Bicycling in Minneapolis in the Early 20th Century

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There's an amazing article on bicycles in Minneapolis during the early parts of the 20th century in Minnesota History magazine.

The photos are spectacular.
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check it out.